Tech at Night, Part 2: Traitors, Thieves, Terrorists, and Trolls

As I mentioned Friday night, I had so much to cover I was breaking up Tech at Night into two parts. This is part two.

Remember when I called out Wikileaks for abandoning their ally Edward Snowden in Russia? They claimed he had settled there and their job was done, but I knew better. Well, here’s the proof that they’ve used him up and thrown him away: he’s still trying to get out of Russia, this time to Brazil. Spying for Wikileaks doesn’t even pay.

Here at RedState, Fred Campbell gives his views on Retransmission Consent reform. I’m of the view that the system, by design, is terribly skewed in favor of local broadcasters against cable companies, picking winners and losers in the marketplace. And I think some sort of effort, such as the DeMint-Scalise reform idea, should be taken to address that. Campbell doesn’t seem to think the bill goes far enough though, which I think is reasonable to say. However I won’t oppose the bill because of that.

The Heritage Foundation constantly warns us about how many “professional licenses” the government mandates these days. Sound like a silly thing to worry about? Well, what if writing online required a license, as it now does in Singapore?

Finally, we talk about patents. Senate Democrats are mad at efforts to curb the litigiousness of patents, after they passed the America Invents Act a while back. Big surprise. It’s weird that Patrick Leahy is on the side of Mike Lee and not Dick Durbin on this though.

Jimmy Carter is at fault in the real patent problem though. Carter started us down the road of getting too many patents issued, which is what I’ve seen saying is the real problem for a while now, when it comes to patent trolls. Jimmy Carter: history’s greatest monster.